Guided Inquiry Plan

Teachers: Annie & Walter
Class Level: yrs 7 to 8
Time Frame: 6 weeks

Context:
Big Idea or Question: Be prepared and advert being conned

Possible Action Questions:#
  1. Who makes advertisements?
  2. How do they make advertisements?
  3. How do we know they are telling the truth?

Curriculum Areas and Contexts;
HealthHealthy Communities and Environments Students will: Societal attitudes and values • Investigate and describe lifestyle factors and media influences that contribute to the well-being of people in New Zealand. Personal Health and Physical Development Students will: Safety management • Access and use information to make and action safe choices in a range of contexts.
MathematicsStatistics Statistical investigation • Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: Statistical literacy • Evaluate statements made by others about the fi ndings of statistical investigations and probability activities.
Social StudiesStudents will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to: • Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
English Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas.
• Show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

Skills and Strategies to be Taught (Highlight)

Learning to Learn
Thinking Tools
Research
Tools & Presenting

  • Goal setting
  • Organisation and time management
  • Tracking and asking for assistance
  • Collaboration and group work
  • Self and peer evaluation
  • De Bono Hats
  • PMI
  • Thinkers Keys
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Fogarty’s Intellect
  • Thinking Maps
  • Habits of the Mind
  • Questioning skills
  • Key words (Identifying and using)
  • Internet searching
  • Using contents and index
  • Using websites
  • Skimming, scanning & reading for detail
  • Taking notes
  • Making notes
  • Sorting Interpreting and organising
  • Citing references
  • Use of ICT
  • Use of software
  • Layout and design
  • Vocabulary studies
  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Public speaking
  • Discussion

Learning Outcomes1. Students will have further developed their media literacy skills to:*
Understand how media messages create meaning
  • Identify who created a particular media message
  • Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do
  • Name the "tools of persuasion" used
  • Recognize bias, spin, misinformation and lies
  • Discover the part of the story that's not being told
  • Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, beliefs and values
  • Create and distribute our own media messages
  • Become advocates for change in our media system
2. They will have also increased their proficiency in their current ICT skills and have gained profeciency in the use of one new ICT technology and one new software.

Learning Experiences (P on completion)
P

P
Stage 1: Information Saturation

Stage 4:Interpreting and using

Stage 2: Wondering, questioning, deciding

Stage 5:Creating and Presenting

Stage 3: Exploring and Finding

Stage 6:Celebrate and Evaluate

Assessment Indicators



Student Inquiry Reflection Sheet

Skills & Strategies Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

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Key Competency focus
How the key competency will be encouraged in this unit
Thinking
Media literacy skills and thinking go hand in hand. Critical thinking skills need to be developed, by practicing & developing the skills of accessing, analyzing and evaluating information found in media
Relating to others
Co-operative learning activities, group planning and creating
Using Language, symbols and text
Creating & analyzing advertisements, creating invitations and presentations. Web-based interactive activities
Managing self
Individual and group activities, working with others at home, co-coordinating with others.
Participating and contributing
Authentic learning, group presentations and activities. Learning new ICT skills and supporting other to learn.

Inquiry Learning Sites
http://ozpk.tripod.com/0inquiry Heaps of useful info, winks and examples
www.inquiringmind.co.nz
http://www.inquiringmind.co.nz/WhatIsInquiry.htm
This workshop is one of the Concept to Classroom online workshops (United States). It explains and defines inquiry learning, and guides teachers to implement inquiry-based learn...http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html
http://centre4.core-ed.net/modules/folder/folder.php?space_key=368&module_key=28260&link_key=28136&group_key=0 Whanganui ICT PD Cluster website. Lots of info on a range of things that could support creating your own unit


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